Ferrell Alvarado Ramos
Ferrell Alvarado Ramos

Senior QA Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 16 Aug 2026
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Location
Costa Rica
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Unspecified
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Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior QA Engineer and QA Automation Engineer with more than nine years of experience improving software quality, release confidence, and delivery speed. I specialize in transforming manual, fragile testing processes into scalable automation strategies that provide reliable release signals.

I design and implement end-to-end, API, web, mobile, database, and cross-browser test automation using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript. My experience includes building maintainable frameworks with BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin, and Page Object Model practices.

I have led QA strategy across enterprise implementations involving SAP ERP, Salesforce CRM, e-commerce platforms, and multi-country rollouts. I am comfortable making release readiness and go/no-go decisions based on risk, coverage, defect trends, and business impact.

I have managed and mentored QA engineers, established KPIs, reviewed test cases, and improved team automation capability. I enjoy helping junior engineers grow while aligning QA work with engineering and business priorities.

I also work with CI/CD and quality-management ecosystems, integrating automated testing into Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps. I use Jira, TestRail, Xray, qTest, Postman, REST Assured, SQL, BrowserStack, and Swagger to support traceable and continuous quality practices.

Most recently, I have developed AI-driven QA workflow agents that generate test cases from Jira requirements, execute tests, and produce validation reports. I focus on practical automation investments that reduce risk, shorten validation cycles, and prevent defects from reaching production.

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Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer BCT

Designed a Playwright end-to-end suite covering more than 150 user journeys, increasing coverage to 90% and reducing regression testing time by 35%. Built targeted Selenium validation for form boundary values, error states, and field dependencies, integrated with GitHub Actions for pull-request quality checks.

Owned mobile quality for three production applications using Appium on iOS and Android devices, while establishing BrowserStack cross-browser and cross-device practices. Mentored three junior engineers in Playwright, BDD, and Page Object Model design, and created AI agents to generate test cases from Jira requirements, execute tests, and produce validation reports.

Quality Assurance Engineer Correos de Costa Rica

Architected Playwright end-to-end automation for critical e-commerce purchase flows and integrated execution into Azure DevOps. Reduced a three-day release validation process to approximately six hours, enabling faster releases.

Owned quality for a delivery tracking application and created Appium coverage for more than 40 scenarios, including notifications, GPS, and offline behavior. Tested over 60 API endpoints and identified 15 critical backend defects before production.

Quality Assurance Engineer Appvance

Expanded Selenium and Java automation across web validation, end-to-end workflows, and mobile SDK testing for a SaaS platform. Increased automated coverage from 45% to 78% to support release velocity.

Led QA delivery for a four-person team, managing schedules, milestones, test-case review, and quality-gate approvals. Integrated automated execution into Jenkins CI/CD, reducing defect resolution time by 25% and post-release production defects by 30%.

Quality Assurance Engineer WoodmenLife

Created a regression and UAT test library of more than 300 cases in TestRail for an insurance platform, establishing repeatable release coverage where testing had previously been ad hoc.

Built Jira QA dashboards to report coverage, defect density, and release readiness, reducing go/no-go decision time by 20%. Identified more than 25 ambiguous requirements during the design stage to prevent downstream rework.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 3M (ArthroCare / Smith and Nephew)

Owned QA strategy across eight business units in three countries, building Selenium, Cucumber, and Page Object Model automation frameworks for SAP, Salesforce, and e-commerce platforms. Developed more than 500 Salesforce automated scripts, reducing manual testing effort by 40% and release-cycle testing time by 30%.

Led testing strategy and UAT coordination for a SAP legacy migration involving more than 50 stakeholders, resulting in 20% fewer critical defects after go-live. Managed a five-engineer QA team, established KPIs and performance reviews, and led a transformation from fully manual testing to 70% automated QA over 18 months.

Education

Learning history

Universidad Americana

Bachelor, System Engineering

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